Curtain and shade bracket



A. C. HUNTER.

CURTAIN AND SHADE BRACKET.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

PATENT OFFEQEQ ANNIE C. HUNTER, OF PLANT CITY, FLORIDA.

CURTAIN AND SHADE BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dot. 5, 1921).

Application filed March 5, 1919. Serial No. 280,812.

T 0 (IR whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANNIE C. HUNTER, acitizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at Plant City, in the county of Hills.

borough and State of Florida, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Curtain and Shade Brackets, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of the invention is to provide a neat and effective deviceadapted to hold both a curtain pole and a shade roller bracket. Thedevice is of such shape that it may be conveniently stamped and formedfrom a single piece of metal andmade at one operation on a stampingpress. When completed it is adapted for attachment to a window framewithout the use of screws and without marring the latter.

The invention is illustrated and described in a specific embodiment, towhich, however, it is not to be restricted. The right is reserved tomake such changes or alterations as the actual reduction to practice maysuggest, in so far as such changes or alterations are compatible inspirit with the annexed claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of the upper portion of a windowframe showing the improved device attached thereto.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device per 86.

Fig. 3 is an edge elevational view of a portion of a window frameshowing the device mounted thereon.

Referring to the drawings, the invention is shown as constituting acombined curtain pole and window shade bracket formed from a singlepiece of metalpreferably thin flat stock. The stock is bent to form abody portion 1, a leg portion 2, designed to rest on the upper edge ofthe window frame, this leg portion being at an angle to the body portion1 and a depending hook portion 3, which connects with the leg portion 2at the end remote from the body portion 1. The leg portion 2 is ofgreater length than the window frame 4, is thick, but the lower or freeend of the body portion is designed to abut or rest against the frontface of the frame. The upper end of the body portion, therefore, standsspaced away from the window frame when the de vice is attached, butinclines toward the body portion at its lower or free end where thestock of the bracket is curved as shown at 5 to provide a foot restingagainst the window frame.

To provide a curtain pole support, a tongue 6 is struck from the bodyportion 1 and this tongue at its free extremity is: shaped to provide anupstanding stud 7 with which a curtain pole 8 engages, the latter beingtrailed or poled diagonally to provide a hole for engagement with thisstud 7.

The said roller sup ort comprises a disklike ear 8 formed att e lowerextremity of the body portion by turning the stock of which it is madeat right angles. The ear 8 is thus formed with the body portion adjacentthe curved or foot portion 5 of the latter and of each pair of bracketsone ear 8 is formed with a rectangular hole for the reception of thefiat stud of a shade roller while the corresponding ear of the otherbracket is formed with a round hole for the pivotal engagement of theround stud of the shade roller.

From the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings, it isbelieved that a clear enough understanding of the invention is to be hadto render further description unnecessary.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and usefulis:

A combined curtain pole and shade roller bracket formed from a singlepiece of metal bent to form a body portion, a leg connecting with thebody portion and a hook portion connecting with the leg the body portionbeing at an acute angle with the leg portion, and being formed at itslower extremity with a foot formed by curving the stock of which thedevice is made, the body portion having struck therefrom a curtain polesupport and further having formed therewith a disk-like ear adjacent thefoot, the ear being formed with a hole for the reception of the stud ofa shade roller.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ANNIE C. HUNTER.

